This socialist is troubled by the elevation of Fatima Mousa Mohammed to heroic status, and to the blithe dismissal of the reference in the Nation piece to the anti-Jewish pogroms in Yemen as irrelevant to the anti-Palestinian programme of apartheid Israel. A little compassion for those 1940s Yemeni Jews would go some way to remedying the conclusion that Mr Plitnick regards the lives of those Jewish people as lesser than those of the Yemenis who were attacking and killing them. I admit to not knowing much about this period; but I am not encouraged by the coldness of Mr Plitnick to what were acts so grievous and terrifying to Yemeni Jewish people that they were all forced to flee their home country, never to return. That is rather more than "deeply troubling and problematic"; it is part of the case that Zionists use to justify their own violence against Palestinian people.
This socialist is troubled by the elevation of Fatima Mousa Mohammed to heroic status, and to the blithe dismissal of the reference in the Nation piece to the anti-Jewish pogroms in Yemen as irrelevant to the anti-Palestinian programme of apartheid Israel. A little compassion for those 1940s Yemeni Jews would go some way to remedying the conclusion that Mr Plitnick regards the lives of those Jewish people as lesser than those of the Yemenis who were attacking and killing them. I admit to not knowing much about this period; but I am not encouraged by the coldness of Mr Plitnick to what were acts so grievous and terrifying to Yemeni Jewish people that they were all forced to flee their home country, never to return. That is rather more than "deeply troubling and problematic"; it is part of the case that Zionists use to justify their own violence against Palestinian people.